Books & DVD's
Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook
by Jeremy Sutton
Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook is a comprehensive creative, full color guide to being creative with Corel Painter IX software.The goal of this handbook is for you to realize your full creative potential and express yourself in your art with soul and passion. To achieve this goal you have to become the master of your tools so you are free to fully expressive self.
In this handbook you will learn the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations, manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative photo-collage. The projects include advanced techniques and creative strategies for all levels. The book allows readers to build upon their knowledge so that beginners have the chance to become advanced users, and advanced users have an opportunity to hone their skills and adopt new techniques.
What's New in This Edition? :
This handbook includes much new exciting content, both technical and artistic. I summarize here just a taste of what's inside…
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Incorporates the new features of Corel Painter IX and the Wacom Intuos3
This book has been completely rewritten since the Painter 8 edition, with inclusion of all the relevant new features and capabilities that have been introduced with Painter IX and the Wacom Intuos3 technology.
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Revised and Improved Structure
The structure and flow of the chapters has been improved. The material is broken down in a way that makes learning easier and allows you to adapt your reading to suit your level of experience with Painter.
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New Visual Glossary
Included in this new edition is a visual glossary of every brush category supplied with Painter, plus the Jeremy Faves 2.0 brush category that comes on the Painter Creativity Companion Resource CD with the handbook. This visual glossary is designed as an at-a-glance quick reference to help you locate brushes with the look and feel you are seeking.
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New Chapter on Brush Customization
An entire new chapter, chapter 3 ‘Foundation III: Brush Creation', has been introduced. This chapter takes you through different ways to create your own unique custom brushes and how to save and organize them for optimum efficiency.
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New Techniques
You will find newly researched techniques employing the latest developments in Painter and also incorporating ways to use the strengths of Painter and Photoshop in tandem (such as the new Watercolor Sketch Technique). Projects and assignments have been revised and improved.
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New Artwork
I have created fresh new artwork especially for this edition. In addition to my own work you will see inspiring recent artworks by students who attended my Painter Panache workshops, and also by other selected guest artists.
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New Custom Brushes
Take advantage of a whole new set of custom brushes in the Jeremy Faves 2.0 brush category on the Painter Creativity Companion Resource CD that accompanies the book. These new unique custom brushes were created specially for this edition of the handbook and you won't find them anywhere else. These brushes alone are worth the price of admission!
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What to Buy?
I recommend starting off with my book, Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, and introductory DVD, Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton. The book is a great complement to all my other materials and also serves as the required text book for all my classes. The book goes deeper and broader than any DVD. It also provides covenient step lists for many of the techniques shared on the DVDs. The Learning Corel Painter X DVD gives you a good overview of the software.
Once you are familiar with the basics then I recommend the more advanced DVD sets, How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X - Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton
and Expanding Your Creativity with Jeremy Sutton - The Art of Collage Portraiture. Both these more advanced DVD sets take you through real-life case studies from beginning to end, sharing along the way my work-flow, organizational systems, creative process, decision-making strategies, techniques and tools, plus including extensive extra brushes, art materials, tutorial images and more. In these two DVD sets I share cross-media techniques that show how I work with different programs and apply traditional media onto my prints.
If you are keen to dive in deeply and work through all my materials then I recommend my Ultimate Collection 2007 which includes all the items mentioned above at a discounted price (roughly equivalent to having the Learning Corel Painter X DVD thrown in for free).